

Publisher: NRC Research Press
ISSN: 1208-6045
Source: Canadian Journal of Physics, Vol.90, Iss.8, 2012-08, pp. : 795-805
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Abstract
One of Professor Donald M. Hunten’s lasting contributions to the field of planetary atmospheres was the principle of the (Hunten) limiting flux, where the escape of light species is limited by the rate at which they can diffuse through the atmosphere. While his limiting flux expression has been well tested for hydrogen’s escape from the Earth’s atmosphere (e.g., Hunten and Strobel (
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